An Interdisciplinary Laboratory For Data Acquisition, Analysis, and Modeling

该项目的目标是通过教授先进的数据采集、分析和建模的计算机化方法，在自然科学、社会科学和数学科学的学生之间建立跨学科合作的新途径。该项目涉及生物、数学科学、物理化学、心理学和社会科学系，强调这些系通用的基于计算机的研究方法。一个共同的实验室将容纳一个由Macintosh计算机、软件和相关数据采集板组成的网络，其中包括三个强大而通用的软件包：LabVIEW、Stella II和SYSTAT。学生们将在一门跨学科的实验室课程“科学中的计算机”中被介绍这项技术。在这种背景下获得的技能和知识将应用于各种学科实验室，已经为这些实验室设计了许多实验和练习，并在从宏观经济学原理、个性到神经生物学的各种课程中进行了试用。高年级学生将在他们的论文项目中使用这些计算工具，这些项目将在一个新的跨学科研讨会上展示。我们试图利用新的实验室技术创造一个跨学科合作的氛围，学生可能会在研究生研究和工作环境中使用这些新技术。学生将准备在基础和应用研究项目中占据一席之地，这些项目需要跨学科的视角。

The goal of the project is to create new avenues of interdisciplinary collaboration among students in the natural, social, and mathematical sciences through instruction in advanced computerized methods of data acquisition, analysis, and modeling. The project involves the departments of Biology, Mathematical Sciences, Physics and Chemistry, Psychology, and Social Sciences, and emphasizes computer-based research methods common to these departments.A common laboratory will house a network of Macintosh computers, software, and associated data acquisition boards including three powerful and versatile software packages, LabVIEW, STELLA II, and SYSTAT. Students will be introduced to the technology in an interdisciplinary laboratory course, "Computers in the Sciences". Skills and knowledge gained in this setting will be applied in various disciplinary laboratories, for which numerous experiments and exercises have already been designed and trial-tested in courses as diverse as Principles of Macroeconomics, Personality, and Neurobiology. Senior students will use these computing tools in their thesis projects, which will be presented in a new interdisciplinary seminar.We seek to generate an atmosphere of interdisciplinary collaboration using new laboratory technologies which students are likely to use in both graduate research and work settings. Students will be prepared to take their places in both basic and applied research projects which require an interdisciplinary perspective.